Category: World

By Dave Doolittle, Chuck Lindell and Patrick George, Austin American-Statesman – COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Three people have died, including a Brazos County constable and a reported gunman, in a shootout Monday

By Kate Mather, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Imane Boudlal got a job two weeks after moving to California, a hostess position at a Disneyland Resort cafe. She didn’t log

By Mary MacVean, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Ready for this one? Americans are fat. More accurate, Americans are still fat. The federal government released its “obesity map” on Monday,

By Jon Stephenson, McClatchy Newspapers – KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan security forces foiled an insurgent plot to attack Afghanistan’s parliament and the home of one of the country’s leaders, Afghan officials said Sunday.

By Laura King and Hashmat Baktash, Los Angeles Times – KABUL, Afghanistan — A powerful remote-controlled bomb ripped through a car carrying a district governor in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing him and

By Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times – JERUSALEM — An Israeli soldier who was indicted two years ago in the fatal shooting of two Palestinian women during a 22-day military offensive in the

By Kenneth R. Weiss, Los Angeles Times – JAIPUR, India — Ramjee Lal Kumhar and his bride, Mamta, first laid eyes on each other inside a billowing wedding tent festooned with garlands

By Matthias Gafni and Sean Maher, Contra Costa Times – RICHMOND, Calif. — More than a dozen workers were nearly killed when the vapor cloud that sparked Monday’s massive Chevron refinery fire

By Greg Gordon, McClatchy Newspapers – WASHINGTON — For President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney, the race for the White House seems indisputably centered around one issue: Who can do

By Greg Gordon, McClatchy Newspapers – WASHINGTON — Tom Murphy, an associate physics professor at the University of California, San Diego, likes to compute big and daunting numbers. So when he grew

By Nancy Youssef, McClatchy Newspapers – AL JORA, Egypt — Egyptian police and soldiers on Sunday killed six people here suspected of participating a week ago in the deadliest attack on Egyptian troops

TEHRAN — Rescue workers used helicopters to access remote areas in northwestern Iran hit by twin earthquakes, and while the official death toll was Sunday lowered to 227, tens of thousands remained

By Michael Gordon, McClatchy Newspapers – CHARLOTTE, N.C. — For the second time in less than a year, evangelist Billy Graham has been hospitalized in Asheville, N.C., this time for a suspected case

By Daniela Hernandez, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – MINNEAPOLIS — The frightened teenager spent her 14th birthday at Children’s Hospital in Minneapolis. For weeks, the doctors didn’t know what was wrong — until

By Greg Gordon, McClatchy Newspapers – WASHINGTON — After nearly a decade of warnings that the world’s oil supply was running out, Americans now are hearing about technology breakthroughs that can unlock

By Leon Stafford, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution – ATLANTA — Coca-Cola’s Freestyle fountain dispenser, which the company launched three years ago, is one of its biggest innovations in years, and many say the

By Nika Soon-Shiong, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — The Greenland ice sheet, the second-largest ice body in the world, has lost its ice in fits and starts — with short bursts

By Laura King, Los Angeles Times – KABUL, Afghanistan — An Afghan worker on a military base in southern Afghanistan opened fire and killed three NATO troops, military officials said Saturday, bringing

TEHRAN, Iran — Two strong earthquakes struck the northwestern Iranian region of Azerbaijan on Saturday, killing at least 180 people and injuring some 1,350, Provincial Governor Khalil Saei told official the news

By Laura Nelson, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — During a promotion ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, a proud wife placed a star insignia on her spouse’s uniformed shoulder — the

By Amina Khan, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — After a week of transmitted dramatic photos of Mars, rover Curiosity is going to have a a four-day “brain transplant.” Engineers will

By Roy Gutman, McClatchy Newspapers – ISTANBUL, Turkey — The United States and Turkey on Saturday took a half-step toward intervention in Syria, announcing that the two governments jointly would begin “in

Los Angeles Times – BEIRUT — Shelling and clashes continued Saturday in the Syrian cities of Aleppo and Damascus as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met with Turkish leaders to

TEHRAN — Two strong earthquakes struck northwestern Iran on Saturday, killing at least 153 people and leaving some 1,300 injured, Deputy Interior Minister Hassan Qadami told the Fars news agency. Striking within

By Tim Townsend, St. Louis Post-Dispatch – ST. LOUIS — In her presidential address Friday in St. Louis to the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, Sister Patricia Farrell compared the 900 nuns

By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times – BEIJING — After O.J. Simpson was acquitted of murder in 1995, a well-connected Chinese lawyer pointed to the case as proof of the failure of the

Los Angeles Times – ALEPPO, Syria — On a city street where shops once stayed open late selling computers and electronics, children in flip-flops and dusty clothes clambered over the charred, twisted

By Cynthia Dizikes, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO _ Standing on the Lake Michigan shore, Jackie Kovacs saw her granddaughter fighting to swim back to land Sunday afternoon and immediately dove into the

By Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times – LONDON — Britain pledged Friday to give the Syrian opposition an additional $7.8 million in aid, calling it “the right thing to do” but insisting that

By Mary MacVean, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Nearly 30 percent of middle and high school boys and nearly 18 percent of girls used some form of tobacco last year,

By Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — There have been 145 cases of infection with the H3N2 variant swine flu since July 12 — a significant jump from the

By Rebecca Trounson, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — The Census Bureau is considering changes to the questions it asks Americans about race, in an effort to keep up with the

By Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times – WASHINGTON — There may be a love story at the intersection of the nation’s battered economy and a steady rise in its obesity rates: Compared

By Daniel Hernandez, Los Angeles Times – MEXICO CITY — Fourteen bodies were found in a truck Thursday in the state of San Luis Potosi, at least 17 people have been killed

By Katherine Skiba, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh of Illinois asserted this week that a “politically correct” U.S. government was so fearful of offending Islam that it failed

Rick Smith, CR Gazette – CEDAR RAPIDS — Though a Florida firm has been talking about building a power plant in the metro area that zaps garbage into energy, no one is

By Jon Stephenson, McClatchy Newspapers – KABUL — The number of civilians killed or wounded by violence in Afghanistan dropped 15 percent in the first six months of the year compared with the

By Michael Muskal, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Amid tough conditions in the current fire season, the U.S. Forest Service is moving to more aggressively extinguish small fires before they become

By Mike Johnson, Karen Herzog and John Diedrich, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – MILWAUKEE — The FBI said Wednesday that Wade Michael Page, the gunman who killed six people at the Oak Creek Sikh

By Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times – CAIRO — Signaling a new era in Egypt’s diplomacy, President Mohamed Morsi met with Iran’s vice president Wednesday in the highest-level official contact between the two